Assessment of Community Impacts Technical Report

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Assessment of Community Impacts Technical Report February 2005 1E0311-G0E00-00002 This report has been prepared by Colin Buchanan & Partners Ltd for Cross London Rail Links Limited

Cross London Rail Links Limited 1, Butler Place LONDON SW1H 0PT Tel: Fax:

020 7941 7600 020 7941 7703

www.crossrail.co.uk

Contents

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Introduction

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Scheme Description

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2.1 Introduction

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2.2 Route overview

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Scope and methodology

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3.1 Introduction

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3.2 Definition of Scope

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3.3 Resources and Receptors

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3.4 Establishment of Baseline

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3.5 Consultation

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3.6 Potential Impacts

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3.7 Prediction of Impacts

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3.8 Evaluation of Impacts

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3.9 Assumptions and Limitations

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Mitigation

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4.1 Mitigation Process

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4.2 Mitigation Assumptions

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Baseline and environment impacts: Maidenhead to Westbourne Park 5.1 Introduction

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5.2 Portobello Junction and Canal Way (Route Windows W1 and W2)

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5.3 Old Oak Common Depot (Route Window W3)

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5.4 Acton Main Line Station and Yard (Route Window W4)

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5.5 Ealing Broadway Station (Route Window W5)

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5.6 West Ealing Station (Route Window W6)

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5.7 Hanwell Station (Route Window W7)

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5.8 Southall Station (Route Window W8)

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5.9 Southall West Sidings (Route Window W9)

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5.10 Hayes and Harlington Station (Route Window W10)

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5.11 Stockley Flyover (Route Window W11)

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5.12 Horton Road and Old Stockley Road Bridge (Route Window W12)

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5.13 West Drayton Station (Route Window W13)

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5.14 Iver Station (Route Window W14)

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5.15 Dog Kennel Bridge (Route Window W15)

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5.16 Langley Station (Route Window W16)

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5.17 Middlegreen Road, St Mary’s Road and Trenches Bridges (Route Window W17)

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5.18 Slough Station (Route Window W18)

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5.19 Stoke Poges Lanes Bridge (Route Window W19)

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5.20 Dover Road and Leigh Road Bridges (Route Window W20)

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5.21 Burnham Station (Route Window W21)

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5.22 Lent Rise (Route Window W22)

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5.23 Taplow Station (Route Window W23)

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5.24 Maidenhead Railway Bridge (Route Window W24)

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5.25 Maidenhead Station (Route Window W25)

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Baseline and environment impacts: Westbourne Park to Pudding Mill Lane

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6.1 Introduction

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6.2 Royal Oak Portal (Route Window C1)

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6.3 Paddington Station (Route Window C2)

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6.4 Hyde Park and Park Lane Shafts (Route Window C3)

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6.5 Bond Street Station (Route Window C4)

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6.6 Tottenham Court Road Station (Route Window C5)

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6.7 Farringdon Station (Route Window C6)

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6.8 Liverpool Street Station (Route Window C7)

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6.9 Whitechapel Station (Route Window C8)

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6.10 Mile End Conveyor Corridor (Route Window C8A)

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6.11 Stepney Green Shafts (Route Window C9)

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6.12 Lowell Street Shaft (Route Window C10)

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6.13 Isle of Dogs Station (Route Window C11)

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6.14 Mile End and Eleanor Street Shafts (Route Window C12)

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6.15 Pudding Mill Portal (Route Window C13)

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6.16 Abbey Mills (Route Window C13a)

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Baseline and environment impacts: Stratford to Shenfield

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7.1 Introduction

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7.2 Stratford Station (Route Window NE1)

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7.3 Forest Gate (Route Window NE2)

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7.4 Manor Park Station (Route Window NE3)

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7.5 Ilford Station (Route Window NE4)

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7.6 Seven Kings Station (Route Window NE5)

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7.7 Goodmayes Station (Route Window NE6)

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7.8 Chadwell Heath Station (Route Window NE7)

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7.9 Romford Depot (West) (Route Window NE8)

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7.10 Romford Station and Depot (East) (Route Window NE9)

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7.11 Gidea Park Station and Stabling Sidings (Route Window NE10 and NE11)

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7.12 Harold Wood (Route Window NE12)

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7.13 LB Havering / Brentwood BC (Route Window NE13)

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7.14 Brook Street (Route Window NE14)

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7.15 Brentwood Station (Route Window NE15)

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7.16 Thrift Wood (Route Window NE16)

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7.17 Shenfield Station (Route Window NE17)

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7.18 Pitsea Sidings (Route Window R1)

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Baseline and environment impacts: Blackwall way to Abbey Wood

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8.1 Introduction

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8.2 Blackwall Way and Limmo Peninsula Shafts (Route Window SE1)

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8.3 Custom House Station (Route Window SE2)

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8.4 Connaught Tunnel (Route Window SE3)

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8.5 North Woolwich Portal and Thames Tunnel (Route Window SE4)

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8.6 Arsenal Way (Route Window SE5)

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8.7 Plumstead Portal (Route Window SE6)

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8.8 Manor Wharf (Route Window SE6A)

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8.9 Church Manorway Bridge (Route Window SE7)

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8.10 Abbey Wood Station (Route Window SE8)

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Impact on Accessibility

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9.1 Introduction

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9.2 Access to Education

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9.3 Access to Health Facilities

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9.4 Major Centres

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Summary of Principal Findings

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APPENDIX1: Information on Selected Community Facilities

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Hyde Park Riding School (Route Window C3)

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London College of Fashion (Route Window C4)

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Central St Martin’s College of Art and Design (Route Window C5)

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The Astoria, Metro, Mean Fiddler music venues (Route Window C5)

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Finsbury Circus Bowling Club (Route Window C7)

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Swanlea School (Route Window C8)

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Stepping Stones Farm (Route Window C9)

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North Dock, Blackwall Basin and Poplar Basin –

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British Waterways (Route Window C11)

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Eleanor Street travellers’ caravan park (Route Window C12)

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10 London Borough of Tower Hamlets – Proposed Football pitches at Mile End Park (Route Window C12)

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11 West Ham United Football Club (Route Window NE8)

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12 Westlands Playing Fields (Route Window NE8)

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01 Introduction 1.1.1 This report provides a community impact assessment for the proposed works. It addresses the four proposed route sections: from Ladbroke Grove to Maidenhead and Heathrow in the west, the central tunnel from Paddington to the Isle of Dogs and Stratford, and the two eastern routes to Shenfield and Abbey Wood. The ES records all significant residual impacts identified in this technical report. The community assessment also examines the route wide impacts of the scheme, focusing on accessibility changes for local communities to key services. 1.1.2 This assessment is presented in two volumes. Volume 1 sets out the methodology used to undertake the assessment. It gives a description of the community baseline and a summary of the direct and cumulative impacts. Volume 2 contains the community database, which identifies all resources and receptors (including the name, address and details of each), and plans showing the location. 1.1.3 Appendix 1 provides supporting information about community resources directly affected by the works.

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